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				<p>&quot;Polyglot&quot; Language Switcher jQuery Plugin Documentation by Ixtendo, v1.3<br>
				Website: <a href="http://www.ixtendo.com/">www.ixtendo.com</a> &middot; Email: <a href="mailto:info@ixtendo.com">info@ixtendo.com</a></p>
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			<h1>&quot;Polyglot&quot; Language Switcher jQuery Plugin</h1>
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				<li><a href="#introduction">Introduction</a></li>
				<li><a href="#configuration">Configuration</a></li>
				<li><a href="#usage">Usage</a></li>
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					<h2>Introduction &ndash; <a href="#container">Top &uarr;</a></h2>
					<p>The &quot;Polyglot&quot; Language Switcher jQuery plugin allows you easily switch between the languages supported by your website. It was conceived as a drop-down menu with flag icons.</p>
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					<h2>Configuration &ndash; <a href="#container">Top &uarr;</a></h2>
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						<li><strong>Animation Speed (animSpeed)</strong> &ndash; The speed, in milliseconds, which is used to display and hide the pop-up menu. The default value is 200 ms.</li>
						<li><strong>Animation Effect (effect)</strong> &ndash; You can choose between two possible animation effects: &lsquo;fade&rsquo; and &lsquo;slide&rsquo;. The default value is &lsquo;fade&rsquo;.</li>
						<li><strong>Parameter Name (paramName)</strong> &ndash; The name of the parameter used in the HTTP GET query to send the value of the chosen language. The default value is &lsquo;lang&rsquo; (e.g., http://www.ixtendo.com?<strong>lang</strong>=en)</li>
						<li><strong>Website Type (websiteType)</strong> &ndash; Specify the type of website in which this jQuery plugin will be used. This  parameter can be <em>dynamic</em>, if the website pages are generated by a programming  language (PHP, Java, C#, Perl, etc.), or <em>static</em>,&nbsp;if  the pages are pure HTML files.</li>
						<li><strong>Page Prefix (pagePrefix)</strong> &ndash; This parameter will be taken into account only if the websiteType parameter has a value of 'static', otherwise it will be ignored. This parameter will be used to compose the URL.</li>
						<li><strong>Page Index (indexPage) </strong>&ndash; This parameter will be taken into account only if the websiteType parameter has a value of 'static', otherwise it will be ignored. The value must represent the name of the index page. The default value is &lsquo;index.html&rsquo;.</li>
						<li><strong>Test Mode (testMode) </strong>&ndash; This parameter must be used on true only when you want to make a demo of this plugin without having the internationalization support implemented on the server side. The default value is &lsquo;false&rsquo;.</li>
                        <li><strong>Open Mode (openMode) </strong>&ndash; This parameter can have one of the following two values: click or hover (default is click). It specifies on which mouse event the polyglot popup should be opened.</li>
                        <li><strong>Hover Timeout (hoverTimeout) </strong>&ndash; This parameter is taken into account only if the openMode parameter has the value of &lsquo;hover&rsquo;. It specifies the time in milliseconds after which the popup will be closed when the user moves the mouse away from the Polyglot popup area. The default value is 1500 (milliseconds).</li>
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					<p>The above parameters can be specified to the library as follows:</p>
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	$(this).polyglotLanguageSwitcher({paramName:'language'}); //chaging the language parameter name
	
	$(this).polyglotLanguageSwitcher({effect:'slide'}); //chaging the open/close popup effect
	
	$(this).polyglotLanguageSwitcher({ //example of multiple configuration paremeters
		paramName: 'language', 
		effect: 'slide', 
		animSpeed: 150
	}); 
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					<h2>Usage &ndash; <a href="#container">Top &uarr;</a></h2>
					<p>To use the &quot;Polyglot&quot; Language Switcher in you website, add the following lines of code in the <strong>&lt;head&gt;</strong> tag of your web page:</p>
					
<pre>&lt;head&gt;
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	&lt;link href="css/polyglot-language-switcher.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet"&gt;
	&lt;script src="js/jquery-1.7.min.js" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
	&lt;script src="js/jquery.polyglot.language.switcher-1.3.js" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
	&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
		$(document).ready(function() {
			$(this).polyglotLanguageSwitcher();
	});
	&lt;/script&gt;
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<p>In the <strong>&lt;body&gt;</strong> section of your page, add the following lines of code:</p>

<pre>&lt;body&gt;
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	&lt;div id="polyglotLanguageSwitcher"&gt;
		&lt;form action="#"&gt;
			&lt;select id="polyglot-language-options"&gt;
				&lt;option id="en" value="en"&gt;English&lt;/option&gt;
				&lt;option id="fr" value="fr" selected&gt;French&lt;/option&gt;
				&lt;option id="de" value="de"&gt;German&lt;/option&gt;
				&lt;option id="it" value="it"&gt;Italian&lt;/option&gt;
				&lt;option id="es" value="es"&gt;Spanish&lt;/option&gt;
			&lt;/select&gt;
		&lt;/form&gt;
	&lt;/div&gt;   
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<p>When the &lsquo;websiteType&rsquo; configuration parameter has the value of &lsquo;dynamic&rsquo;, after the user changes the language, the newly generated pages must select the option which corresponds to the selected language. For example, if the Italian language was selected, then all the pages generated by the server must select the option with an id of &lsquo;it&rsquo;. </p>
<p>In the case of static websites (where the pages are pure HTML and aren't generated by a programming language), the selected attribute of the option element will not be taken into account. In this case, the selected value will be stored in the local cache (using HTML5 local storage). It is possible that this case will not work properly on some older browsers which don't support HTML5 local storage.</p>
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